Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[VaEagle]

I know that the bling and flashy stuff can be added to any bike but what gets me about Harley at times is the fact that it's hard to just turn the key on the bike and ride. Usually you have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to get it to run properly. The metric bikes can run properly right out of the box and they don't need many mods. I do agree they are dependable transportation and that they don't have the character of a Harley. Yet I feel if the MOCO truly believed that blank slate PR stuff Willie G spouts then we would be able to order our CVO bikes from the factory with all the parts we want and not have to add them after spending so much for the bike to begin with. I know they would hate to give up the profit from parts sales and labor to install.
They could eliminate the effect of so many CVOs sitting on showroom floors since they are made like the MOCO wants it to be not necessarily the way we want it to be. Let us look at a parts book and then place order with all options , that way none are made unless a deposit is made thus a guaranteed sale.

[bgregston]

so.....  your saying that Victory monstrosity is so fugly that it'd be cool to ride?  huh

Is that what he said? 

I think he was saying cool is in the eye of the beholder. The pretty dog is coolest to some and the ugly dog is the coolest to others. I don't know if the victory dog is cool to anyone though.

[cuthbertss]

Coupla neat features but.  Yech

[spydglide]

so.....  your saying that Victory monstrosity is so fugly that it'd be cool to ride?  huh

Or, you could just do a 'rat bike'.  har!  spyder

[RedDevil]

Do you have a dog ? What breed ?  Do you have a preference ?  Here's the deal. My dog Mickey is 1/2 Dalmation and 1/2 Boxer. The Dalamation in him cancelled out the Boxer in the looks department and everyone who sees him thinks he's the coolest dog they ever saw. On the other hand Beagle has a full blooded brindle boxer named Milo. Milo is so damn ugly he's cool. Too cool for school that dog. Cooler than Jimmy Dean, Bob Dylan or the Rolling Stones. But he's fugly no doubt. Do you get my drift ?

B B

Actually, I have cats.   And they are Himalayans; good looking, fun to have, but finicky.  Just like my HDs.  Good looking, fun to ride, but finicky.  That's the personality of both.  I probably would have bought a Victory Vision had they been a little less "Cylon" looking.  My nephew owns a Victory Kingpin bagger (equivalent of the Road King), and it's a great bike and looks great.  You're right beauty is in the eye of beholder.  And I wouldn't buy a Vision because of it's looks...they are fugly.

   

[bbrown]

Since the California EPA has not detailed any HD motors on their web site I guess the 110 engine will be back for 2009.

Last year they approved the engines in the April May time frame.   

[spydglide]

Since the California EPA has not detailed any HD motors on their web site I guess the 110 engine will be back for 2009.

   

The 'New & Improved' model?  har!  spyder

[Road_Glider]

Since the California EPA has not detailed any HD motors on their web site I guess the 110 engine will be back for 2009.

Last year they approved the engines in the April May time frame.   

Been thinking that same thing.  Just my luck I wait for them to do a CVO RG then they do it and I have to worry did they actually fix the 110 or not.  Sux really.   I may actually pass if they do the bike with that motor, or at least wait to see if there are problems and get one from the second year or even pick up a used one after a year or so. 

[SBB]

if we could get a jims engine @ delivery i would be back on the market for a new cvo........

TN

How about a 131"?
Will that work?

 

[Twolanerider]

Has anyone on the site done anything more than laugh at the pictures of the Victory Touring bike. ? 

B B

I was driving down the main drag here in town yesterday.  There's a Honda dealership that also always has quite a few used bikes on his lot.  Mostly Harleys.  But 30-40% other stuff too.  Yesterday he had one of those Independence Day movie alien looking bikes on the lot.  Second time I drove by it I had to stop.

It's just so weird.  Took it for a little ride.  Maybe five miles.  From the saddle nothing sucks.  Nothing at all.  But you can't shake that feeling that if there is a God he's looking down at you just shaking his head......

[spydglide]

No you didn't!  har!  spyder

[Puzzled]

Been thinking that same thing.  Just my luck I wait for them to do a CVO RG then they do it and I have to worry did they actually fix the 110 or not.  Sux really.   I may actually pass if they do the bike with that motor, or at least wait to see if there are problems and get one from the second year or even pick up a used one after a year or so. 

That is as if I had said it.  

The 110 would be a deterrent for me. Anything else I could live with as I'll probably change it anyway. My 01 still has a stock motor sans the injection. I'd like to think I could do the same with the 110, just ride it.

[TN]

How about a 131"?
Will that work?

 

i think it'd work for more ppl than just I.



 in regard to the victory touring bike i have a friend that was a loyal hd man but now owns a victory....

his GF is the one that likes it and if you saw her ya know why he owns it(the bike that is)...


i rode it and it's very smooth, i kept waiting on it to start hovering er something. but yeah its fugly IMO.




TN

[Steve_G]

Other than which models the '09 CVOs will be, it sounds like they'll continue with the 110" engine.  My question is will they fix the problems that we've been seeing in these bikes for the '09s?  If so, they will have to ADMIT there have been problems for the '07s and '08s.  It'll be their sales point to buy the "new & improved" bikes.  The next question will be the method of availability to correct the engine parts that are changed.  Will they make us wait until there is a problem, or will they issue a recall?  From all the denial I've seen regarding this, I have a feeling they're too chicken chit to issue a recall.
If they don't do some sort of recall, the value of the '07s and '08s will drop like a rock.  Who wants to buy a beautiful CVO that has a bad rep?  We'll own the Edsel of motorcycles. 
Personally, I plan on keeping my bike for the long haul.  I'll do whatever it takes to make it trustworthy.  -But I've lost confidence in the Mo Co, and unless they step up to the plate on these problems, this will be my last Harley.

[SBB]

OK

My source just dried up so forget the 131 for 09.
Sorry, it seemed like a good idea and plan.
But then again so does the servi-car that Don wants.